GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCAST: Darnell Johnson, Director of Product Management – Video Poker, IGT

By Sun, Feb 7, 2021

This week, the GGB Podcast features a discussion with Darnell Johnson, the director of product management, video poker for IGT on how the company’s stranglehold on the video poker market will probably continue with new products and innovations.

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GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCAST: Darnell Johnson, Director of Product Management – Video Poker, IGT

When Si Redd founded IGT back in the mid 1970s, video poker was the company’s cornerstone. When it went public in 1981, it dominated the video poker market. Not much has changed 40 years later. IGT is still the 800-pound gorilla in the video poker market. Darnell Johnson, the director of product management, explains that new products, bar-top innovations and great games drive the growth of the market and why video poker is one of the staples of the casino gaming market. He spoke with GGB Publisher Roger Gros via Zoom from the IGT offices in Las Vegas in January.

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Articles by Author: Roger Gros

Roger Gros is publisher of Global Gaming Business, the industry’s leading gaming trade publication, and all its related publications. Prior to joining Global Gaming Business, Gros was president of Inlet Communications, an independent consulting firm. He was vice president of Casino Journal Publishing Group from 1984-2000, and held virtually every editorial title during his tenure. Gros was editor of Casino Journal, the National Gaming Summary and the Atlantic City Insider, and was the founding editor of Casino Player magazine. He was a co-founder of the American Gaming Summit and the Southern Gaming Summit conferences and trade shows.
Roger Gros is the author of the best-selling book, "How to Win at Casino Gambling" (Carlton Books, 1995), now in its fourth edition. Gros was named “Businessman of the Year” for 1998 by the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Gaming Association in 2012 as part of the annual AGA Communications Awards.

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